Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Waterboys Title: Book of Lightning Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Decca Original Release Date: 1/1/2007 Re-Release Date: 8/21/2007 Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock Styles: Celtic, Folk Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 602517213050, 602517213098, 602517414334, 0602517213050 |
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For over twenty years The Waterboys have been a testament to Mike Scott's extraordinary vision and his fearless love of musical exploration.With songs ranking as some of the most imaginative and distinctive of the past qua... more » |
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Album Description For over twenty years The Waterboys have been a testament to Mike Scott's extraordinary vision and his fearless love of musical exploration.With songs ranking as some of the most imaginative and distinctive of the past quarter century, The Waterboys have scored the dreams and aspirations of generations of music listeners. Now with Book Of Lightning, The Waterboys have created a natural successor to their classics This Is The Sea and Fisherman's Blues and 2000's acclaimed comeback, A Rock In The Weary Land--an album containing elements of those powerful works, but also taking us into thrilling new territory; an album as literate and compelling as anything in The Waterboys' catalog to date. As the opening bars of `The Crash of Angel Wings' thunder out, we know that Book Of Lightning is going to be a new, unpredictable installment in The Waterboys' story. Book Of Lightning was recorded in London in Fall 2006 and was produced by Mike Scott and Philip Tennant, who previously worked with The Waterboys on Fisherman's Blues.The album features electric fiddler Steve Wickham, whose involvement in the band dates back to 1985. Mike Scott is also joined by regular Waterboys' keyboardist Richard Naiff, Louisiana-born drummer Brady Blade, top London drummer Jeremy Stacey, bassman Mark Smith, hot young guitar stylist Leo Abrahams and long-time Waterboys alumni Roddy Lorimer (trumpet), Thighpaulsandra (keyboards) and Chris Bruce (electric guitar). In addition,"Sustain" was recorded in Vancouver with members of Canadian art-rockers Great Aunt Ida. By turns savage, beautiful, haunting and bitingly humorous, Book Of Lightning is brilliantly bound together by Scott's lyrical talents, which have taken on even more maturity and confidence.The consistent presence of weather and nature throughout the lyrics and sound of Book Of Lightning acts as a masterful unifying stroke, drawing us into a world that could only be created by Mike Scott at that moment in time--a world that is a mirror of Scott's self-awareness, his understanding of nature of love, and his observance of the destructive effects of the glamour of power. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBest of Both Worlds jd103 | 08/25/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "It's hard to know the reason for the connection I feel to the Waterboys music. I even somehow missed the Big Music days; it was Fisherman's Blues which first caught my attention. I loved it. Bought all the earlier music. Very different, but loved it also. Room to Roam was a bit of a letdown but I saw them on tour for the first time then and the fun was still there. Then came the long slow decline with a release or two I hated, and a couple more where the description was enough to keep me from buying. The highpoints of those years for me were collections of odds and ends, and expanded versions of the original releases. Now comes Book of Lightning. I won't describe the songs...you can hear the samples. But it's lively and fun again for me, taking me back to the reasons I first fell for this band. If you liked the first four Waterboys releases, regardless of what you think about what came later, I urge you to get this one because I think you'll like it too. I'm hoping radio shows they're doing next week will be on the internet, and I'm definitely planning to see them on tour in November. You can check out their website for info on all that. For now, just start listening to this one." Best Waterboys CD In Decades Bornintime | The East Coast | 08/27/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "I was completely surprised at how wonderful that this new cd is and almost equally surprised by the lack of attention it is getting, considering that it was released in Europe months ago. As a big fan of The Waterboys in the 80's I've since listened to Mike Scott's output of the past almost 20 years and didn't care for a lot of it. Rock In A Weary Land (2001?) is a muddy sounding mess with poor songwriting and is practically unlistenable. Book Of Lightning is the polar opposite. The songs are catchy and bear up after repeated listenings, plenty of good rockers but also some softer introspective material. "She Tried To Hold Me" is a masterpiece that marries incredible lyrics with an amazing vocal. The production is perfect for the material, very clean but not sanitized and overproduced. Mike's voice is wonderful here. It is rough at times (I want to say Dylanesque, but I know that would put some people off) and sounds absolutely wonderful with this material. What also hearkens back to the 80's is the album length - 45 minutes - 10 songs and not one of them makes me reach for the skip button. I don't see restraint like that much from my favorite artists. If you like anything else by The Waterboys I can't imagine you being disappointed with this." City of Kings Lee Armstrong | Winterville, NC United States | 09/09/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "The Waterboys have released such a variety of musical styles that they are hard to predict. Their fans either need a broad range of taste or stay on their toes. "Universal Hall" which was very soft held a couple of jewels that I still play, "This Light is for the World" and "The Christ in You." I look forward to new work from the Waterboys with the enthusiasm I used to have for the next album from The Moody Blues. Waterboys frequently have more uplifting positive messages and incorporate that Findhorn philosophy into the music. "The Archivist's Tale" in the booklet about a person from the future tuning back into the good and bad from our era is classic example of the esoteric backbone of Mike Scott and the band. "Book of Lightning" is an appealing mix of churning rockers and softer pieces. The CD is the musical polar opposite of "Universal Hall."
"The Crash of Angel Wings" opens the set with Mike Scott's smashing electric guitar Jeremy Stacy's percussion, "Here she comes like rumbling drums." "Nobody's Baby Anymore" jumped out with a slightly slower beat, but the electric waterfall of sound still in high gear and religious Palm Sunday imagery in the lyric amid a field of emotional chaos, "I've stepped out on highways that were studded with jewels; I rode into the City of Kings on the back of a mule; I kissed riches, strode tall in my britches, I knew esprit de corps." "You in the Sky" is another of my favorite tracks with its slower beat and Scott's dreamily romantic lyric, "Let me know you, lover woo me, open up my heart and sing your song right through me." "Everybody Takes a Tumble" has a flavor of "Fisherman's Blues" era with Steve Wickham's fiddle elevating the track into a breathtaking classic, "There's vengeance in my belly, slime on both my shoes & everything bad that you ever heard about little old me is true; My trigger finger is itchy, my humour is black & you just stumbled blind, babe, right into my track." Other tracks like the softer "Sustain" or the pounding "It's Gonna Rain" are also excellent. This is an impressive set from this classic Irish band, best of year quality. Bravo! " |
